The Saturday morning ITV show was a cheeky (sometimes perhaps too cheeky) start to the weekend, and it's still genuinely hilarious when watching back old clips. ITV should run repeats on Encore every weekend.

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And now that Cat Deeley has said that she is also up for a reunion, we couldn't help but remember all the amazing skits and games that the trio so superbly fronted way back when. These are the things they MUST bring back one last time:

1. Wonkey Donkey

Potentially the best phone-in game in TV history. If Carpool Karaoke and Lip Sync Battle can get entire TV shows built around them, then Wonkey Donkey deserves one.

A simple premise: viewers had to ring in to guess what a cuddly toy was called, but it had to rhyme. For example: a happy bee singing a tune was 'Twee Bee' (although 15 callers had failed to guess that one right after three weeks, whoops).

What made the game so amazing was Dec's continued frustration at the callers' inept guesses, especially if they were proposing answers that didn't remotely rhyme. Dec didn't hold back his anger just because they were kids, far from it.

2. Chums

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A parody of Friends but perhaps even funnier. Yeah, we just said that. Whether it was fluffing lines, hamming it up to the max or inviting some celebrity guests, this was the closest thing we've ever got to Saturday Night Live-style comedy in the UK. Honestly.

It was so good, it even spawned its own VHS compilation, and had an omnibus special repeated later in the week on CITV. The days.

3. Fart gags

You know you have comedy gold when there are whole skits based entirely around fart jokes. Even better when one was a spoof of Sunday period drama Heartbeat (Fartbeat) and Neil Buchanan's Art Attack (you can probably guess what that was called).

4. Captain Justice

Here's a great example of what made SM:TV Live so great. You laughed when you were a kid, but weren't always entirely sure why. Watching these clips back, you can clearly hear how all the adults on set were in hysterics while the kids looked rather confused and deadpan in comparison.

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This consumer affairs segment saw kids asking Ant as a Superman-style hero (well, Dec would rephrase the question before they had a chance to speak) for some advice. The Captain would give an outlandish explanation of how he'd tackle the problem with a booming voice, before Dec would say 'or...', and The Captain would give a more realistic and boring answer.

The sketch would always have lots of homoerotic overtones, as The Captain was clearly in love with Dec, and would attempt to ask him out at any opportunity.

5. The Beautiful Corrs

OK, a bit dated now, but any excuse to see Ant, Dec and Cat dress up as The Corrs in long black wigs and with awful Irish accents. And Jim with the paper bag over his non-beautiful face, of course.

6. All the Pokémon games

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As Pokémon was one of the various kids' shows that would air during SM:TV Live, it only made sense to milk it for all its worth by coming up with a few games inspired by the cartoon.

Pokéfights saw Ant and Dec dress up as Pokémon characters and battle each other, with Dec usually as Ash or Misty and Ant as 'G-G-G-Gary'. There was also PokéRap, with Ant & Dec as rappers in knitted Pokémon jumpers. Psyche.

7. Cat the Dog

A bit 'arsh to call Cat's dorky character 'The Dog', but still. First appearing in other flashback sketches, Cat the Dog ended up getting her own spin-off after Ant & Dec left the show, and we'd love to see what Cat the Dog's been up to since, along with her 'bestest ever ever friend' Louise Redknapp. We just hope there weren't any Brummie teens called Cat who wore glasses and had braces back in 2001.

8. Postbag

If nothing else, just to hear them burst out with 'Please Mr Postman' once more. And they never read out our ruddy letters.

9. Challenge Ant

We loved it when Ant played the baddie. He was surprisingly good at it. Each week, a child would ask Ant 10 questions, and for every one Ant answered incorrectly, the child won a prize.

If the child asked a 'Killer Question', and Ant answered incorrectly, we heard the sweet music of 'You're thick, you're thick, you're thick, you're thick you are, you're thick, you're thick' to the tune of 'Olé!', along with a dunce cap placed on his head. If Ant won, the kid would lose all their prizes and Ant would be crowned 'King of Common Knowledge', complete with taunting of the losing child. It was all fun and games, honest.

10. Eat My Goal

A simple game, but just as exciting as a whole series of The Jump. Celebrity guests would take penalties against Ant in goal, with callers selecting the celeb they thought could beat him. We're frankly amazed Ant hasn't signed up to play in Soccer Aid yet.

11. Dec's love for Sabrina

As Sabrina the Teenage Witch aired during the show, Dec would often proclaim his love for the titular star, seemingly unaware that she was a fictional character.

He would regularly read a godawful poem for Sabrina, much to Ant's annoyance. When Melissa Joan Hart herself appeared on the show, Dec managed to convince her to be his 'lass'. She agreed, but had no idea what he meant. A love story for all ages.